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Author: Vladimir I. Ionesov
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780773472907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA systematic analysis of the Bactrian archaeological record. The author's assessments of excavated findings aim to provide a better sense of how urban (or fortress-city) life developed out of small-scale traditional societies.
Author: Bertille Lyonnet
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 932
ISBN-13: 1351757830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s, the Oxus Civilization, or the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), has engendered many different interpretations, which are explored in this volume by an international group of archaeologists and researchers. Contributors cover all aspects of this fascinating Bronze Age culture: architecture; material culture; grave goods; religion; migrations; and trade and interactions with neighboring civilizations, from Mesopotamia to the Indus, and the Gulf to the northern steppes. Chapters also examine the Oxus Civilization’s roots in previous local cultures, explore its environmental and chronological context, or the possibly coveted metal sources, and look into the reasons for its decline. The World of the Oxus Civilization offers a broad and fascinating examination of this society, and provides an invaluable updated resource for anyone working on the culture, history, and archaeology of this region and on the multiple interactions at work at that time in the ancient Near East.
Author: Christoph Baumer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-04-18
Total Pages: 1568
ISBN-13: 1838608680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)
Author: Wolfram Grajetzki
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0812245679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith detailed illustrations and archival images, Egyptologist Wolfram Grajetzki describes and compares the opulent tombs of eminent and royal women from the late Middle Kingdom, shedding new light on how the gendered and social identities of these women were viewed in the court and preserved in the grave.
Author: Milad Milani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1317544587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity. Such resistance continues to manifest itself today with many looking to Sufism as a model of cooperation between East and West, between traditional and modern. 'Sufism in the Secret History of Persia' explores the place of Sufi mysticism in Iran's intellectual and spiritual consciousness through traditional and contemporary Sufi thinkers and writers. Sufism in the Secret History of Persia examines the current of spirituality which extends from the old Iranian worship of Mithra to modern Islam. This current always contains elements of gnosis and inner knowing, but has often provided impetus for socio-political resistance. The study describes how these persisting pre-Islamic cultural and socio-religious elements have secretly challenged Muslim orthodoxies and continue to shape the nature and orientation of contemporary Sufism.
Author: Bryan K. Hanks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-08-31
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0521517125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.
Author: Christine Mathieu
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Naxi and the Mosuo (who are officially considered a part of the Naxi) are peoples living in northwestern Yunnan Province of China. Anthropologist Mathieu investigates the histories of these groups through a reading of textual sources, local and imperial historiography, oral tradition, and religious ceremonial texts. Her major objective is to describe the process by which the tribes oriented towards Tibet were transformed into vassal subjects of the Chinese empire. She also seeks to elucidate the ethnic relationship between the Naxi and Mosuo. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: John R. F. Bower
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study is a comparison of the Palaeoindian and the archaic communities of north America and those of the final Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic of northern Eurasia.
Author: Anthony Good
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe temple of the god Kalugacalamurtti - the local name for Murugan, Siva's younger son - is the largest economic enterprise in the town of Kalugumalai, South India, yet ostentatious display and devotionalism loom far larger in the conduct of its affairs than economic rationality, despite attempts at bureaucratic rationalism by successive governments. This book describes this Hindu temple's complex patterns of public liturgy and private worship, and explores the metaphysical themes which underlie them according to the Saiva Sidhhanta philosophy governing temple worship. It shows how temple rituals portray and enact the sexuality, kinship, and regality of the gods. It then recounts how temple economy and administration have changed over the past two centuries, how groups and interests within Kalugumalai town challenged the temple's hegemony over their affairs, and how and why the Rajas of Ettaiyapuram, the temple's hereditary Trustees, successfully resisted repeated government attempts to assume control of the temple over the past 50 years. There have relatively few previous ethnographic studies of large Hindu temples and no other field-worker has access to such detailed information
Author: Andrys Onsman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnsman (Australian indigenous studies, Monash U., Melbourne) was born in Frisl n, one of the Netherlands, and takes his native people as a case study to investigate the nature of indigeneity as the notion and implications of it become important in international affairs. He weaves his study around seven interviews--one in English, five in Dutch, and
